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\n Electric aircraft could soon be helping Angelenos avoid traffic, and the rush is on to find spots for them to launch and land.\n <\/p>\n
Cushman & Wakefield has a high-flying new assignment.<\/p>\n
Vertiports by Atlantic tapped a Cushman team to scout out sites for electric air vehicles, also referred to as “flying taxis,” in cities along both coasts.<\/p>\n
Cushman’s task is to find sites appropriate for electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, in California, New York, New Jersey and Florida,\u00a0the Los Angeles Times reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The team leading the effort is based in Los Angeles,\u00a0where officials are\u00a0working with a San Jose-based company to incorporate\u00a0flying taxis into plans<\/a>\u00a0for hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028.<\/p>\n So what does it take for a property to serve as a landing pad for a Jetson-esque flying car?<\/p>\n “Roughly a 3.5- to 4-acre site is ideal,” Cushman Executive Vice Chair Mike Condon Jr. said. “High-volume, high-traffic areas, areas that are the most infill, it’s going to be very challenging to find 4-acre sites in the middle of the city.”<\/p>\n But since the goal is creating a network and reducing congestion for terrestrial cars, properties in those denser locations also have to be part of the strategy.<\/p>\n For a “killer location,” Cushman and Vertiport will make it work, Condon said.<\/p>\n Offices, parking garages, warehouses and even regional malls are on the table to build out the network of landing pads, which Condon said will ideally number 20 or 30.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’re going to be very creative and we\u2019re willing to look at anything that we can basically take off and land on,\u201d Condon said.<\/p>\n These properties are \u201cno-frills\u201d sites, just places for these vehicles to land, pick up passengers, and leave.<\/p>\n VertiPorts by Atlantic is an arm of Atlantic Aviation<\/a>, which operates an existing network of more than 100 private plane terminals<\/a>\u00a0at airports throughout the country, including eight in Southern California, which could potentially be used for the eVTOL aircraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n